The Alternate ‘Breaking Bad’ Ending With Bryan Cranston And Jane Kaczmarek Is The One Who Knocks

Why this was released on a Saturday, on a Saturday night at that, I have no idea, but who cares: it’s Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek reprising their Malcolm in the Middle characters, Hal and Lois, with Hal, sadly sans roller skates, explaining the terrible nightmare he had. It involved a silent man ringing a bell and a DEA agent brother-in-law…and Hal was cooking and married to another woman. Finally all those lame “Breaking Bad is a Malcolm prequel” jokes are obsolete. None of those involved butt sex kickers.

I did this after Breaking Bad ended. It’s glorious and I forgot how much Hal was such a big part of it. He’s always got hilarious storylines and it’s great seeing him do comedy so well. It’s all on Netflix. I’m almost done with it all.

When they did a reunion show for the Bob Newhart Show, the premise of the reunion show was Bob as a psychiatrist trying to analyze his dream. Howard from next door said he had weirder dreams. In fact, he had this one dream where he was an astronaut. And there was this genie.

He did something similar on HIMYM, reappearing as Ted’s former boss. He calls asking him to join him, and keeps getting rejected. At one point his tone totally changes and says “now you listen here” or something in a super Heisenberg voice, before switching back to a whine.

I think Netflix pays an amount per user that can see the content plus something for views (very small). Netflix tried to only pay for who actually watched the stuff but greedy content companies said no.

I only ever watched MITM occasionally when it hit syndication but it was watchable and Cranston was good in it. I admit I didn’t watch Breaking Bad at first because I was skeptical of his ability to act dramatically. The great reviews it was getting made me take notice.